![]() This analysis isn’t original to Gladwell. Gladwell lays out his case in his new book, “David and Goliath.” Acromegaly could account for Goliath’s unusual size, he writes, and the vision problems it can cause could explain a range of details in the Bible: Goliath’s slow movements his request that David come to him rather than the other way around his need for an attendant to walk with him onto the battlefield even the fact that Goliath taunts David by saying, “You come against me with sticks?” in the plural, when, in fact, David is carrying but a single stick. This disorder, identified in the late 19th century, manifests as gigantism, and it may affect vision. But according to Malcolm Gladwell, it was largely because Goliath had a disorder known as acromegaly, a tumor on the pituitary gland. How did David defeat Goliath? According to the Bible, it was because God was on his side. ![]()
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